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Or Persona
Never played a Persona game, which would you recommend on Steam for a first time player?
Persona 5 (with or without Royal) is the newest one, with all the streamlining and quality of life improvements - it's a solid first choice regardless of your JRPG experience.
Persona 3 Portable and 4 Golden are older and lack some of the newer features, might be a bit more tedious, depending on how strongly you feel about modern streamlining. Otherwise, both hold up really well.
Persona 3 Reload is P3 but with (some?) improvements from P5R and should feel relatively familiar to that from the gameplay perspective.
There are also older games (but they might be a rough introduction depending on how dependent you are on modern gameplay sensibilities) and spin-offs (which are better choice after you have some familiarity with the franchise, in my opinion).
TLDR: If you want a shiny and polished game to start go with P5R then choose whichever other game strikes your fancy. All games have their own themes and atmosphere so there's something for everyone.
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